Unemployment Benefits

A new report by Florida International University asserts that states like Florida that have dramatically tightened eligibility for unemployment insurance are seeing the biggest drops in the jobless receiving any benefits at all. The conclusion from FIU's Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy: Cutting the duration of unemployment benefits has been “especially detrimental” to the unemployed. Florida now ranks fourth lowest in the country in jobless workers getting unemployment benefits. Less than 19 percent of Florida's jobless receive benefits, about half the rate of jobless benefits recipients at the national level (34.7 percent). Most short-term...

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